Ecclesiastical Assemblies (2)

The origin of ecclesiastical assemblies as we know them today must seemingly be traced to the period of the Reformation. The Presbyterial system is one of the fruits of the 16th century Reformation. In Scripture itself we do not read of Classes and Synods. The meeting convoked in Acts 15, at which the question of Gentile circumcision and subjection to the law of Moses was decided for the churches, cannot properly be called a Synod. The origin of ecclesiastical assemblies as we know them today...